boys:
86 births since 1960
#4500 (2nd percentile)
overall:
86 births since 1960
#7653 (1st percentile)
The name Barren is the #7,653 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 86 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,500 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 86 births since 1960.
Barren first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (first recorded for boys in 1960). Birth data for Barren is available in 14 out of the 64 years between 1960 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Barren reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #644) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Barren ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 68.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Barren".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Barren. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.0% confident that Barren is pronounced as BA-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEH-ruhn, at 37.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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